Meat-cutter.



4P. BARTZ. MEAT GUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 5, 1907.

930,920. Patented Aug. 1o, 1909.

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UirrrED STATES PATENT oEErcE.

FRANK BARTZ, OF HORNELL, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TOOTHE A. J. DEER CO., OF HORNELL,

' i NEW YORK, .A` CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

' MEAT-CUTTER.

Speciication of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1o, 1909.

T o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK BAETZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hornell, in the county of Steuben and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Meat-Cutters, of which the following is a complete specification.

This invention is an improvement in meatcutters, and relates more particularly to the class of rotary cutters in which the meat is fed by a screw through a perforated plate over one face of which latter operates adrotary knife to cut the meatinto small pieces or particles as it passes through the perforations in the plate. character, and where it is desired to cut or divide the meat into very small particles, the usual operation is to feed the meat first through a perforated plate havingV comparatively large holes and then through a second plate having smaller holes, rotary cuttersor rnives operating in conjunction with said plates, and in those machines in which provision is made for only a single perforated plate it is necessary to change one plate for another during the operation of cutting the meat, the plates being removable for this purpose.- y

The primary object Vof my invention is to provide a rotary meat cutting machine having two plates or disksspaced apart and hav` ing perforations 4of different sizes, in conjunction with rotary cutting knives operating over the facesof the perforated plates or disks and one of said cutting knives adaptedy to feed the partially choppedlmeat from one perforated plate to the other so that it willV e cut into very small particles as it passes out of the machine.

A further object of my invention is to so construct the several separable parts of the machine that it will not require any skill in assembling them.

Other though minor objects of my inven tion will hereinafter appear, and v what l claim as new will bev specifically set forth in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this speciiicationz-Figure 1 is a sectional view of a rotary meat cutting machine constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an end `view ofthe machine. Fig. 3 is an end view with lparts removed to show the first or inner perforated plate and means for preventing rotationf of In `rotary cutters of this the same. Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are detail views of `the cutting knife whichis located between the perforated plates or disks.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the yfigures ofthe drawings.

` Referring to said drawings, 1 designates the cylinder or barrel of the meat-cutter, and the same is provided at one end with a hopper 2 and at the other or open end with a thread r5 to receive the adjusting-ring, said cylinder or barrel being also provided with a bearing, as 4, forthe feed-screw, said bearing being located at the closed end, as is usual.

'In carrying out my invention l employ a feed-screw 5 of the desired itch and provided at one end with a stub-shaft or gudgeon 6, journaled in the bearing 4, and squared at its outer end, as'shown, to receive either a crank-handle or gear wheel, according to whether the machine is to be o erated by hand or mechanical power. ,At t 1e other or outer end'of thefee'd-screw is formed a stubshaft or gudgeon 7 squared to receive a rotary knife 8 of ordinary construction, and beyond the knife the edges of said shaft or gudgeon are rounded, as shown, so as to have a bearing in a circular opening in a perforated plate or disk 9, the latter being adapted to take into the cylinder or barrel 1 and bear against the rotary cutting-knife 8 so that the latter will operate over the inner face thereof.

This plate' or disk 9 is provided with the Vusual slightly tapering perforations, which in the present instance are larger than those in a second plate or disk hereinafter referred to. The perforated plate or disk 9 is adjusted up to the cutting-knife in the usual mannerby means of an internally threaded ring 10, and in the present instance this ring is provided .with a rearwardly-projecting annular flange 11 adapted to form a chamber in the rear of the perforated plate or disk 9, said fiange at its outer end being countersunk, as at 13, to

receive a second perforated plate or disk 14, and externally threaded,'asat 15, to receive an adjusting ring 16 for said latter plate. In the present instance the iianged adjustingring 10 is of such width as to provide a comparatively shallow chamber between the perforated plates or disks 9 and 14, but as will be obvious saidy adjustingvring may be made of greater width to correspondingly increase the depth of the auxiliary chamber. Located in this auxiliary chamber, and between the perforated plates or disks 9 and 14 lblade and the adjoining perforated plate,

is a rotaryY knife 17, which is of such peculiar construction that it will not only serve to cut the meat as it passes through each perforated plate or disk, but will also serve to feed the meat through the auxiliary chamber from one perforated plate to the other. This knife is driven by the. feed-screw, for which purposeth'e fermer is provided with a square socket (see Fig. 4) to receive the squared or flattened outer end of the stub-shaft or gudgeon- 7. Said knife 17 also has a bearing in the outer perforated plate or disk 14, and therefore is provided with a gudgeon 18 extending through a central opening in said plate or disk, the latter having a hub, as shown, to increase the bearing surface, and for the purpose of connecting these parts so that they may be removed together a cotterpin 19is passed through a perforation in the outer projecting end of the gudgeon beyond the end of the hub.

The rotary knife l17 is provided with two sets of cutting blades, 17 a and 17h, which bear against the perforatedl plates 9 and 14, respectively, so as to operate over the opposing faces of said plates. It will be noted, therefore, that the blades 17 l of the rotary knife 17 operate on one side of the perforated plate 9 while the knife 8 operates on the other side of the same, and that the blades 17 b of the said knife 17 operate against the inner face ofthe outer perforated plate or disk 14. By reference to Figs. 4, 5 and 6 it will be seen that the blades 17ZL are constructed and arranged after the manner of a propellerblade, that is to say having the side directly in rear of the forward or cutting edge disposed Yat an angle, so that when said knife is turned these blades will act to push the meat toward the perforated plate 14. The other blades, 17h, have a slightly projecting cutting edge, and adjoining this edge is a flat side extending substantially parallel with the axis of the cutter. This cutting knife is preferably made solid or in one piece, as shown in the drawings, but it will be obvious, of course, that the blades which operate against one of the perforated plates may be connected to a hub which is separate from the hubvr of the blades which operate against the other plate. In each instance there is a clearance between the rear edge of each and the cutting blades are all constructed so that they may be easily sharpened in the usual manner, and in this particular it will be noted that the parts are constructed so that the adjusting rings 10V and 16 may take up for any sharpening of the blades.

Instead of providing a single pin 20 to prevent the turning of the perforated plate or disk 9, I provide three pins, as shown in F ig. 3, two of whichV are spaced a certain distance apart and the third a greater or less distance from one of the others. As will be obvious i this provides that said plate can be placed in the cylinder onlyT one way, er with one of its faces always toward the knife S, and though the other perforated plate or disk is provided with but a single pin, as 21, the hub on said plate will insure its being properly placed on the gudgeon of the rotary knife 17, and the gudgeon on said knife will also insure its being properly placed in the machine.

In order to hold. orsecure the adjustment ofthe ring 10 it is provided with a projecting lug to receive a set-screw 22 which is threaded through the lug to impinge on the cylinder or barrel.

The operation of the meat-cutter will be readily understood from the foregoing description, for the meat being placed in the cylinder will be fed to the perforated plate 9 having the large perforations and eut bythe rotary knife S. The pieces which pass through said perforations will be again cut by the blades 17a of the knife 17 and will be forced by said blades toward the plate 14 having the smaller perforations, and as the meat passes into these perforations it will be again eut by the blades 17b of the knife. The small particles which pass into the perforations of the plate 14 will then be forced out of the machine by the effect of the cutting-knife or propeller 17. In this manner the meat is operated on by three knives and continuously fed from the hopper or feed end to the outer or discharge end of the machine. It will be noted also that by the peculiar construction of the knives or blades which are located in the auxiliary chamber they not only serve to feed the meat to the outer per-v forated plate but also act toy thoroughly mix the partially cut meat on its passage te said outer perforated plate. On account of this latter olperation, therefore, the machine is especial y adapted' for mixing and mineing meat for sausages and the like.

In case it is desired to cut the meat into particles of a size corresponding with the perforations of a single plate, for instance the plate 9, the other perforated plate, as well as the knife 17, are removed by unserewing the ring 16, and after removing the flanged ring 10 the ring 16 is substituted therefor.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. In a meat-cutter, the combination with a cylinder, feed-screw, and two perforated plates located beyond the outer end of the feed-screw and s )aced apart, of a knife rotatable between the perforated plates having blades17b operating against the outer perforated plate, and separate blades 17*l operating against the inner perforated plate, said blades 17 being disposed at an angle to said inner plate rearward with respect to the rotation of the knife and having its rear edge a slight distance from the outer plate to leave a space between said blades and said outer plate, whereby the blades 17a cut the meat from the inner plate and feed it against the outer plate for the operation of the blades 17h, as herein shown and described.

2. ln a meat-cutter, the combination with the cylinder and feed-screw, the latter having a squared gudgeon the outer portion of which is flattened at the corners, a knife mounted on the inner portion of said gudgeen, a perforated plate let into the end of the cylinder and forming a bearing for the outer portion of the gudgeon beyond which bearing said gudgeon projects a slight distance, a rotary knife having at its inner side a s uare socket adapted t0 receive the end of t e gudgeon and at its outer side a pro` jecting spindle, a perforated plate having an opening through which the spindle projects, and means on the outer end of the spindle for locking the knife and perforated plate together7 together with means for adjusting the perforated plates, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a meat-cutter, the combination with the cylinder and removable perforated plate adaptedto iit into the end of the same said plate having tapering perforations, of three pins spaced at different distances apart on one of said parts, and recesses or perforations in the other part correspondingly spaced FRANK BARTZ.

l/Vitness'es:

D. M. HURLBURT, L. G. HoLLANDs. 

